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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






2. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






3. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






4. A four line stanza in a poem.






5. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






6. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






7. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






8. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






9. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






10. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






11. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






12. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






13. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






14. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






15. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






16. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






17. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






18. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






19. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






20. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






21. A strong pause within a line.






22. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






23. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






24. A poem that tells a story.






25. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






26. The main character of a literary work.






27. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






28. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






29. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






30. The person who 'tells' the story.






31. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






32. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






33. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






34. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






35. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






36. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






37. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






38. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






39. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






40. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






41. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






42. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






43. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






44. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






45. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






46. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






47. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






48. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






49. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






50. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.